{"id":58912,"date":"2016-12-04T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58912"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T18:23:29","slug":"angry-dems-play-the-blame-game-over-hillary-loss-as-the-infighting-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58912","title":{"rendered":"Angry Dems Play The Blame Game Over Hillary Loss As the Infighting Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Angry democrats are lashing out at anyone and anything they think contributed to Hillary&#8217;s loss while vehemently igoring the simple fact that Hillary, and her many scandals, were the unilateral reason for their crushing defeat.\u00a0 <strong>Be that as it may, it is far easier to blame some combination of Bernie Sanders, Putin, James Comey, &#8220;Fake News&#8221;, Julian Assange, White Supremacists, The Electoral College, Jill Stein<\/strong>&#8230;and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-30\/obama-still-cant-process-hillary-loss-blames-fox-news-every-bar-and-restaurant\">as we recently noted<\/a>, Obama has decided to focus his blame on Fox News and other &#8220;fake news&#8221; outlets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends\/status\/803955871596179456\/video\/1\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends\/status\/803955871596179456\/video\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Palmieri (Hillary&#8217;s Communications Director), on the other hand, has chosen to blame &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; for Hillary&#8217;s loss&#8230;<strong>yes, because the Midwest states of WI, MI, and PA that voted for Obama twice by huge margins (Obama won Michigan by 17 points in 2008!) suddenly became overrun with &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; who showed up in force on election day to hand the presidency to Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>I would rather lose than win the way you guys did.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/widget\/video-embed\/822597699936\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Peter Daou, the former chief executive of Shareblue, an online venture described by the New York Times as <strong>\u201cHillary Clinton\u2019s outrage machine,\u201d<\/strong> has decided to focus his anger on Bernie&#8230;.which has resulted in yet another glorious tweet storm from a disaffected Hillary supporter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.17.28-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58914\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.17.28-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-04-at-1-17-28-pm\" width=\"511\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.17.28-PM.png 511w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.17.28-PM-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.18.16-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58915\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.18.16-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-04-at-1-18-16-pm\" width=\"515\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.18.16-PM.png 515w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-04-at-1.18.16-PM-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/308600-dem-blame-game-rages-over-clinton-loss\">The Hill<\/a> was able to track down at least a couple level-headed democrats who admitted that the blame game is <strong>&#8220;bullshit&#8221;<\/strong> and that &#8220;<strong>the Clinton people have to stop blaming everybody else for their loss.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>The idea that Sanders bears any blame for Clinton\u2019s loss is \u201cbullshit,\u201d<\/strong>according to progressive commentator Bill Press, who is also a columnist for The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDemocrats \u2014 particularly the Clinton people \u2014 have to stop blaming everybody else for their loss,\u201d<\/strong> Press continued. <strong>\u201cThe idea that they are going to blame it on Bernie, or blame it on [FBI director James] Comey, or blame it on the Russians\u2026 The other two [excluding Sanders] were factors but it doesn\u2019t take away from the big picture that they lost an election they never should have lost.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether Sanders would have won where Clinton failed is a question that will give progressives sleepless nights for a long time. The Vermont senator\u2019s wife, Jane Sanders, said in the days after the election that he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d have had a better chance of vanquishing Trump. But, she added, \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hillary Clinton deserves all the blame she gets for the candidate she was and the campaign she ran,\u201d<\/strong> said one Democratic strategist who requested anonymity to speak candidly. <strong>\u201cBut it is incredibly disingenuous for Bernie Sanders and his team to suggest they would have done better. He couldn\u2019t win the f&#8211;king primary!\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We wonder whether democrats will ever wake up to the fact that the cause of their loss is actually quite simple and can be summed up in a single picture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/12\/04\/hillary-shrug_0.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-04\/angry-dems-play-blame-game-over-hillary-loss-infighting-escalates\">Angry Dems Play The Blame Game Over Hillary Loss As the Infighting Escalates | Zero Hedge<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}